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May 22, 2006 Issue

Cover Story

Two years ago, a panel selected Michael Arad’s design as the 9/11 memorial—and that was just about the last time anyone involved in the process
agreed on anything. Inside the political warfare and
backstabbing that have kept ground zero barren and turned an idealistic young architect into an outcast.

Features

David Framowitz says that Orthodox authorities in
Brooklyn, desperate to maintain social order, ignored evidence that
he—and many others—were sexually abused by a teacher.
After years of Catholic-priest scandals, it’s a story that’s all too easy to believe.

The danger of war reporting is typically part of its ruggedly glamorous appeal. But in this conflict, the correspondents are targets
living in constant fear, and the Iraq we are left to understand is shrouded
in shadows.

This weekend, over 100 artists open their studios in Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, and Bedford-Stuyvesant as part of the annual
SONYA (South of the Navy Yard Artists) Studio Stroll. Since it’s self-guided,
you can stop for a snack along the route.

The Da Vinci Code not only marks the big-screen return of mullets but also of an age-old Hollywood stereotype, the evil albino—much to the ire of the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation (NOAH).